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Show Thk cruel persecution which tho czar of KusHia is waging against the Jews is disappointing to those who had begun to hope that this autocrat was going to become an enlightened ruler. Instead of this, he is placing himself with such blind despots as Louis the 14th, who in bigoted zeal for a creed inflicted an irreparable blow on the strength of his kingdom. We suspect however that the czar hm not even the poor excuse of the fanatic, but is Influenced solely by a mistaken view of state policy. During the past yenr there havt ' . been, in round numbers, 33,000 people t''- ' ' wounded and 4,000 killed by the railroads rail-roads in the United Suites. The railroad rail-road managers say that, compared with the number of people transported, it is a very small percentage. True, but there have been as many killed and wounded as would have resulted from a summer campaign with an army of 10,000 on one side, in which ns many as ten pitched battles have been fought That would be very considerable consid-erable of a sensation from a newsman's (standpoint. |